Queen of Hearts - Cooking
What is it?
Get cooking and test out a new recipe today! One small step can lead to a massive life change. Check out some of our favourites below.
How to do it?
Smash the boredom from preparing the same old meals and start choosing healthy food ingredients instead of highly processed pre-packaged foods. Choose a new healthy tasty recipe to try and level up your cooking game. Look for an online cooking course to teach you how to make quick, delicious healthy meals.
Online open learning courses integrating both nutrition and cooking offer a free and flexible venue for reaching adults across the globe. These courses help provide an individuals with the skills needed to make the attempt to improve their behaviours around meals and nutrition (Adam et al., 2015).
Enroll in a free online cooking course to enhance your culinary skills and learn new recipes. Check out this course.
Why do it?
This is a great way to improve nutritional needs and find new recipes to add to your repertoire to help you live a healthier lifestyle. The gradual substitution of highly processed foods with alternative healthy home cooked meals is a potentially effective behavioral shift aligning well with the goal of improving eating behaviors and meal composition (Adam et al., 2015).
What’s the science behind it?
The detrimental effects of consuming too much highly processed food have been studied and detailed. Having access to simple nutrition education has been shown to produce positive changes in eating behaviours among adults and is even more beneficial when nutrition education is directly linked to disease prevention. Additionally, the protective impact of healthy home cooking on health outcomes for the family is also well documented. As a result, this has prompted calls for cooking skills education for school children, parents, and healthcare providers. Research advocating for cooking demonstrations and hands-on cooking education in addition to basic nutrition presentations is encouraging in yielding measurable positive changes in nutrition-related behaviours in adults (Adam et al., 2015).
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References
Adam, M., Young-Wolff, K. C., Konar, E., and Winkleby, M. (2015). Massive open online nutrition and cooking course for improved eating behaviors and meal composition. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity, 12, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-015-0305-2
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